The Buckeye State decided in a special election against making its constitution harder to change: voters rejected a proposal to introduce a higher hurdle by about 57% to 43%
, rather than the current requirement to have them from just half the counties. For those that made it that far, the threshold for a proposal to pass would have been raised to 60% of the vote .
Across America, 26 states allow residents to initiate ballot measures, including 18 where citizens can propose constitutional amendments. In recent years such votes have become a tool to enact liberal ideas in Republican-controlled states, including legalising marijuana, raising the minimum wage and expanding Medicaid . In Ohio Republicans have controlled the state government since 2011.
last year. In each case, voters have opted to protect access to abortion. But in Kansas, Kentucky and Michigan the abortion-rights campaign won with less than 60% of the vote. In Ohio the legislature brought about the August special election after it became likely that the abortion amendment would make it onto the ballot. “There’s never a wrong time to do the right thing,” explained Frank LaRose, the Republican secretary of state who campaigned to raise the threshold.
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